#Certhia americana

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Brown Creeper

Photo: Tom Murray

"Looking like a piece of bark come to life, the Brown Creeper crawls up trunks of trees, ferreting out insect eggs and other morsels missed by more active birds. It is easily overlooked until its thin, reedy call gives it away. Reaching the top of one tree, it flutters down to the base of another to begin spiraling up again. Creepers even place their nests against tree trunks, tucked under loose slabs of bark, where they are very difficult to find."

- Audubon Field Guide

#birds #brown creeper #birds of north america #north american birds #creepers #creeper #treecreepers #passerines #birds of the us #birds of canada #birds of mexico #birds of central america #birding #bird of the day #Certhia americana

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A new variant has been added!

Brown Creeper (Certhia americana) © Edwin L Sheppard

It hatches from bold, brown, cryptic, high, jerky, long, mature, narrow, nearby, other, short, sweet, thin, tiny, top, unique, white, and woodland eggs.

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#squawkoverflow #brown creeper #certhia americana #birds #edwin l sheppard

[alonglistofbirds]

[1715/10977] Brown creeper - Certhia americana

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Certhioidea Family: Certhiidae (treecreepers)

Photo credit: Alain Robinson via Macaulay Library

#birds #Brown creeper #Passeriformes #Passeri #Certhioidea #Certhiidae #Certhia #birds a to z #undescribed

[occasionallybirds]

A Sunday stroll by a pond.

Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens)

Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)

Brown Creeper (Certhia americana)

March 5, 2023

Southeastern Pennsylvania

#bird #birds #photographers on tumblr #downy woodpecker #tufted titmouse #brown creeper #birblr #birdblr #animals #nature #ornithology

[northernpintail]

Brown Creeper, Certhia americana

#birds #original photography on tumblr #original photography #nature #vancouver island #nature photography #pnw #birding #bird photography #birdwatching #brown Creeper

[thelostcanyon]

Brown Creeper (Certhia americana), Rucker Canyon, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona.

#birds #arizona #photographers on tumblr

[tuckedinnature]

Picture(s) of the Day: Brown Creeper

Certhia americana

ORDER: Passeriformes

FAMILY: Certhiidae

Wintering birds in our area, they're one of the hardest for me to capture as they blend in so well with the trees that my camera has a hard time focusing on them. Or it could be my own eyesight. I love spotting and watching them.

Did you know (via CornellLab's All about Birds: The Brown Creeper builds a hammock-like nest behind a loosened flap of bark on a dead or dying tree. It wasn’t until 1879 that naturalists discovered this unique nesting strategy.

#birding #backyard birds #in your orbit #nature photography #Brown Creeper #original photography #nature

[bestbackroads]

Brown Creeper (Certhia americana) 03/05/2023 #browncreeper #creeper #bestbackroad #bestbackroads #natgeoyourshots #natgeo100contest #natgeo #rutlandcountyvt #washingtoncountyny #whitehallny #wildphotography #naturephotography #adventurephotography #wildlifephotography #roadphotography #nikon #photoadventure #naturetherapy #nationalgeographic #newengland #newyork #yorkmont #westhavenvt — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/FoXj8Ib

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[geopsych]

Not a great photo but I’m chuffed because although they aren’t rare, brown creepers are very hard to see. I only saw this one because it was moving up the tree trunk. 

#bird #birb #brown creeper #certhia americana #april #pennsylvania

[fatchance]

Invisibird.

Brown creeper / trepadorcito americano (Certhia americana) at the Ramsey Canyon Preserve, Cochise County, Arizona. 

#photographers on tumblr #brown creeper #Certhia americana #birds #Ramsey Canyon Preserve #The Nature Conservancy #Cochise County #Arizona

[otterpillow]

Brown creeper in Central Park

#brown creeper #certhia americana #central park #central park birds #NYCParks #birding #fall migration

[dendroica]

Brown creeper at Ohio River National Wildlife Refuge (via U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region)

Birders with sharp hearing skills are most likely to discover a brown creeper -- the tiny birds are so well camouflaged that you have to be very lucky to see one by chance! But they are actually somewhat common in our woods, where they spiral up the trunks of trees foraging for food. Listen for their piercing call, then look for a little piece of bark shaking in the wind!

Credit: Michael Schramm/USFWS

#Brown Creeper #Certhia americana #Certhia #Certhiidae #Certhioidea #Passerida #Passeri #Passeriformes #Psittacopasserae #Eufalconimorphae #Aves #birds #treecreeper #wildlife refuge #Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge #Ohio River Islands NWR #West Virginia

[hello-birdies]

Certhia americana by Mark Heatherington

#bird #birds #animal #animals #biology #nature #wildlife #fauna #Passeriformes #Certhiidae #Certhia #Certhia americana

[maritimeorca]

From the archives Via Flickr: Brown Creeper (Certhia americana) in the Canyon area of Chambers Creek Properties

#Animal #Bird #Brown Creeper #Canyon #Certhia americana #Chambers Creek Properties #Creeper #Pierce County #Washington

[just-a-beagler]

Brown Creeper  Certhia americana

I’m locked in a battle with the creepers that live in the cemetery, they’re not my biggest fans and I’m dying to get some decent photos

#brown creeper #Certhia americana #bird #birding #bird watching #nature #wildlife #nature photography #wildlife photography #bird photography

[uwmspeccoll]

A Tree-loving Feathursday

TITMICE, NUTHATCHES, AND CREEPERS

I count myself very fortunate to be able walk through Downer Woods every day on my daily commute to work. There are many bird species I encounter in these woods, but there are always the usual suspects, and among those daily denizens of Downer Woods are the feathered fellows (except for the Boreal Chickadee) depicted in this 1930 painting by the Canadian ornithologist and bird artist Allan Brooks (1869-1946), as reproduced in Bird Portraits in Color by the American physician and ornithologist Thomas Sadler Roberts and published by the University of Minnesota Press in the 1934.You will always find these tree-loving birds creeping, crawling, or hanging from the branches and twigs of trees.

What I love about these little guys is that they seem absolutely fearless, especially the White-breasted Nuthatch and the Brown Creeper. I literally have stood nose to beak with them and they seem completely unperturbed. And one time while I was watching a Downy Woodpecker in the Downer Woods, a Chickadee alighted on my shoulder! These diminutive borbs and many others make the walk to work a daily adventure. They are in detail from top to bottom:

1.) Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) 2.) Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) 3.) Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) 4.) Boreal Chickadee (Poecile hudsonicus): found mainly in Canada but also in the Upper Peninsula and along the Lake Superior coast of northern Wisconsin. 5.) White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) 6.) Brown Creeper (Certhia americana)

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-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

#Feathursday #Thomas Sadler Roberts #Thomas S. Roberts #Allan Brooks #Bird Portraits in Color #University of Minnesota Press #Tufted Titmouse #Red-breasted Nuthatch #Black-capped Chickadee #Boreal Chickadee #White-breasted Nuthatch #Brown Creeper #bird paintings #scientific illustration #birds #birbs! #titmice #nuthatches #chickadees #creepers